Erasive-rubber holder



(No Model.)

L. W. FABER.

ERASIVE RUBBER HOLDER.

No. 461,205. Patented Oct. 13,1891.

-UNITED 'TATES ATENT OFFICE.

LOTHAR W. FABER, OF PORT RICHMOND, NEW YORK.

ERASlVE-RUBBER HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 461,205, dated October 13, 1891.

Application filed August 21, 1890- Serial No; 362,577. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOTHAR W. FABER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Richmond, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Erasive-Rubber Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Erasive rubber has been made as a comparatively thin strip, so that the end is nar-' row and adapted especially to type-writers,

who often have to rub out single letters upon rubber, and I employ the manuscript. Rubbers of this character have sometimes been inserted into flat tubes and pushed outfrom time to lime as worn away; but in practice it is found that the rubber is not grasped with suiticient firmness to remain in,p0sition under the pressure incident to use.

My invention relates to the combination of a folded holder of sheet metal or similar material with an erasive strip and a slide-band to pressthe folded holder upon the strip of holding-teeth at the ends of the folded strip, and inclines upon which the slide-band acts to firmly grasp the erasive strip. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an edge vie.v of the holder and erasive rubber. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the folded holder, and Fig. 3 is a side View of the holder and rubber, Figs. 1 and 3 being of a magniand there is a slide-band d surrounding the holder, and the sizes of the parts are such that when the band is notin contact with the projections 3 the two parts of the holder spring apart suificiently for the era-sive rubber a to be inserted into'theholder or removed therefrom or adjusted to anydesired posi- -tion, and when the slide-band is moved into contact with the inclines 3 the holder is made to clamp the rubber, and the teeth 2 aid in firmly holding the same. v

I claim as my invention-- As a new article of manufacture, the erasive implement herein described, consisting of'a thin flat strip of erasive rubber protected on its two flat sides and one end by the sheet-metal folded strip bowed at the rear, toothed at the ends to grasp the projecting end of the rubber, provided with rising inclines toward the forward end of one or both sides, and furnished-with the sliding clamp-ring, all substantially as shown and described. v 5 I Signed by me this 19th day of August, 1890.

LOTHAR \V. FABER.

Witnesses:

F. L. KOLK, C. O. FLEMING. 

